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Print to a specific
printer
You
are allowed up to 99 different
printer definitions for each
company.
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When you
select
Printer
, a list of the
printers that
were
defined via
System Manager
is displayed
for you to
choose
from.
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From this list,
select the
printer to
which the
report should
be sent.
To send your
report to the
first printer
on the
displayed list,
just press
<Enter> .
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Note:
Windows systems
also have the
added feature
of previewing
and optionally
searching for
a field value
in the
report before
printing with
the API
functionality.
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View the report to
screen
The View menu
heading is enabled allowing you
to move within the report from
the menu or use the
shortcuts.
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For
15" monitors,
you see the
left 80
characters of
your report and
the first 1/3
or so of each
report page
when you select
Screen.
Seventeen inch
or
more monitors
(windows only)
may be defined
for a wider
view.
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Use shortcuts
to
move
directly
from the
left to
the right
side of
the
report,
forward
and back
one
screen at
a time,
or go
immediately
to the
first or
last page
of the
report.
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When
you've seen
what you
needed, use the
"Abort"
shortcut to
return to the
menu.
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Print to the system
queue
Frequently used
when you're having hardware
dificulty.
Very helpful for
reports difficult to reproduce
such as posting
registers.
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Se
nd your report to
the Down To Earth
print
Queue
to be printed at a
future point in
time.
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This option is also
helpful when you
want to print more
than one copy of
the same
report.
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You
can access the Down
To Earth queue
listing from any
application via
the
Queued
reports
selection
of the Reports menu
column.
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Your operator ID
definition controls
whether you have
access
to
All
queued
reports,
your
Company's
reports, or
just the reports
queued by
the
User
.
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Print data to an ascii text
file
Easily allows
you to export report data for
import into a third party
software.
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Choose
Text
File
, to create your
report in a
flat, ascii text
file
format.
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The data is
written in the form
of the report, to
your system's
designated storage
drive.
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Enter a filename to
have a file
automatically
created in the
current working
directory or you
can specify an
entire path to send
the file to a
different
directory.
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For
example:
RPT:vendlist.rpt
~
or
~
c:\mydocu~1\vendlist.rpt
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Printing in
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